Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Chancellor Willy Brandt signs the treaty on Thursday establishing diplomatic relations between West Germany and Czechoslovakia, he will have made a significant step toward the conclusion of his Ostpolitik; the price for this, however, is the abandonment of one of his fundamental principles, the insistence that West Berlin be recognized officially as part of the German Federal Republic...
Ostpolitik is the name for Brandt's master plan of negotiating treaties with all Warsaw Pact countries, for mutual renunciation of the use of force, and establishing normal diplomatic relations with them. Since his election as chancellor in 1969, he has successfully concluded treaties with the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany, although West and East Germany have yet to institute formal diplomatic relations. And at Brandt's suggestion, in the fall of 1971, the Allied powers signed an agreement guaranteeing the right of the West German government to represent the residents of West Berlin; the Soviet Union, of course...
...obvious next step for Brandt was to conclude a treaty with Czechoslovakia. Following this, similar pacts would be signed with Hungary and Bulgaria, and Brandt's goal of rapproachement with the European Communist bloc would be achieved. The treaty with Czechoslovakia is particularly significant because it will void the last agreement made between the two countries, the Munich pact of 1938, by which Hitler annexed the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia, paving the way for eventual conquest of the entire nation. The bitter history of Czech-German relations makes it likely that this treaty will indicate to Hungary and Bulgaria that...
...schemers, you're evil. Every one of you." The misogynist? Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 54, in an interview with idol-smashing Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci published in the New Republic. Fallaci, whose belt already holds the scalps of Henry Kissinger, Willy Brandt and Nguyen Van Thieu, scored again with the revelation that the Shah is not, after all, a ladies' man. What prompted His Sublime Highness's anger, however, was something quite simple. Fallaci had asked him if it were true that he had reverted to harem, taking another wife in addition...
...same members are now rushing forward in pursuit of the Grail of European unity. "Europe has been treated like a nonentity," complained French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert in a remarkable turnabout. "Europe has been humiliated by the superpowers..." Willy Brandt, preaching to the converted, promised the European Parliament in Strasbourg: "We can and will create Europe." Ted Heath and Georges Pompidou, meeting at Chequers, exchanged vows of the same sort...